For subsection (1) of section 7 of the M1Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1980 (jurisdiction of district courts in relation to statutory offences) there shall be substituted the following subsections—
“(1)Except in so far as any enactment (including this Act and an enactment passed after this Act) otherwise provides, it shall be competent for a district court to try any statutory offence which is triable summarily.
(1A)Without prejudice to any other or wider power conferred by any enactment, it shall not be competent for a district court, as respects any statutory offence—
(a)to impose a sentence of imprisonment for a period exceeding 60 days;
(b)to impose a fine of an amount exceeding level 4 on the standard scale; or
(c)to ordain an accused person to find caution for any period exceeding six months or to an amount exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.”.
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